How Software Delivery Management Clears Up the Confusion of Embracing and Implementing DevOps Since the term was coined back in 2009, it wouldn’t be a stretch to describe DevOps as an impactful if not tectonic shift in software development and delivery in the past two decades. The move to implement DevOps has encouraged, among other […]
The Struggles DevOps Administrators are Up Against
DevOps has quickly gone from being a niche concept to a widespread practice that is gaining traction rapidly in both large and small organizations. As it becomes a key part of many development teams, administrators must work to integrate DevOps techniques, tools and practices into a wide range of teams, from operations to development, support […]
Ops: The Other DevOps
Much of the conversation around DevOps, including right here on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud, is about helping developers get easier access to production systems, increasing agility by shortening release cycles. Most of the time, this focus on developers leads to a concentration on so-called “Day One” tasks, the Dev side of the equation, to the exclusion of “Day […]
DevOps Chat: Shift Ops Left, Shift Dev Right with Kristian Stewart, IBM
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Dr. Kristian Stewart of IBM’s Cloud Event Management team. Kristian has some keen insights into the role of dev and ops and how they interact. Kristian calls it Shift Ops left, shift dev right. An interesting way of looking at things. As usual the streaming audio is immediately […]
From Waterfall Incident Management to Collaborative IT Operations
What can Ops learn from Dev in the transition from sequential, reactive IT support to real-time DevOps? One of the signature ideas of DevOps is right there in the name: the blurring of the boundary between the historically separate worlds of Development and Operations. On the face of it, this seems like a great idea. […]
DevOps Chat: Rundeck, Putting the Ops in DevOps, with Damon Edwards
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Damon Edwards, co-founder and chief product officer of Rundeck. What I like to say about them is, Rundeck putting the Ops in DevOps. But Damon needs no introduction to those who have any familiarity with DevOps. He is one of the early leaders of the DevOps community and […]
DevOps: The Innovation Power Couple
If “Dev” and “Ops” are the power couple of tech, “DevOps” is the holy matrimony that takes innovation from trainwreck to fast and repeatable. At most businesses, however, Dev and Ops still sleep in separate rooms and agree only on their mutual contempt. Dev (Development) and Ops (IT Operations) usually are divorced or ready to […]
Swarms: Adapting Guilds To Scale Agility
In my first article in this series, “Using Guilds to Combat Information Silos,” I reviewed the adoption of guilds at xMatters. As our company has grown, we’ve used guilds to keep critical information from languishing in silos—as often happens when an organization scales. Guilds have helped our engineers apply their creativity and critical problem-solving skills […]
VMs, Containers, Cloud, Cluster: Scheduling Differences
Scheduling is a large part of making the data center go, and more to the point of making the virtualized (be it VMs, cloud, containers, or clustering) portion of the data center work. While there are a lot of variables to virtualization performance, scheduling impacts performance all of the time. And yet we only really […]
DevOps Leaders Share 2017 Reflections, Predictions
As the New Year kicks off, it is a time for reflection and a chance to look ahead and plan for what is to come. While many are making personal resolutions pertaining to their physique, job performance or travel plans, there is a lot of chatter in the software delivery space around what DevOps will […]